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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was a source for the Creation passages in the Quenta Silmarillion?
(a) Ainulindale.
(b) Ainur.
(c) Tolkien.
(d) Listwind.

2. What city is similar to the Elvish city in Valinor?
(a) Angband.
(b) Beleriand.
(c) Nargothrond.
(d) Gondolin.

3. Which men were controlled by Morgoth before they came to Beleriand?
(a) Fair.
(b) Tall.
(c) Short.
(d) Swarthy.

4. What did the Ainur exist before?
(a) Death.
(b) Change.
(c) Time.
(d) Renewal.

5. What kind of tables are associated with both A and B versions of the account of tongues?
(a) Argumentative.
(b) Genealogical.
(c) Summarical.
(d) Generic.

6. Where did Men awake, replacing Eruman in Q, in chapter 7?
(a) Alqualonde.
(b) Valinor.
(c) Hildorien.
(d) Tolkien.

7. What did Iluvatar give the Ainur from which they made a harmony?
(a) A backpacker guitar.
(b) A flute.
(c) A mighty theme.
(d) A piano.

8. Where did the Noldorian Elves roam for the first fifty years of the Sun?
(a) Valinor.
(b) Beleriand.
(c) Streetside.
(d) Lost Road.

9. Who helped the Elves of the Falas rebuild their Havens?
(a) Angband.
(b) Gondolin.
(c) Beleriand.
(d) Felagund.

10. The QS explaineds that the Teleri were so named because they _____.
(a) Were tall.
(b) Tried.
(c) Tarried.
(d) Were timid.

11. What did the Ainur entering the world become?
(a) Vallya.
(b) Valinor.
(c) Varma.
(d) Valar.

12. What were the lingerers called who did not follow Orome to Valinor?
(a) Quendi.
(b) Wuseli.
(c) Lembi.
(d) Orome.

13. Who created the Elves and the Men?
(a) Tolkien.
(b) Huo.
(c) Illuvatar.
(d) Hurin.

14. What is another name for the Noldorian Elves?
(a) Priests.
(b) Writers.
(c) Orcs.
(d) Gnomes.

15. What did Melko make that created disharmony and made Illuvatar weep?
(a) A war of sound.
(b) A loud bleep.
(c) A letter and a stone.
(d) A horn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who brought the Ainur into the world and placed the secret Fire of Life in the heart of the World?

2. In QS, whose early fortress is now named Angband?

3. What fortress did Morgoth rebuild?

4. In what year were Hurin and Huor born?

5. In Q, what are called Ranan and Ur?

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